Here's a pic ... part closest to the camera is the part that has not been done (good samaritan weed eater guy ran out of gas). The bank does not look that steep in the picture - very deceiving. Near the bottom in some places, it drops off almost straight down.
Here’s our sloped area.
Like you said in your post, the angle is deceiving, but it’s maybe only 10’ x 12’. The two bluebird houses are about 8 feet apart. I purposefully put them that close so that if the sparrows tried to take over a house, they could retreat to another one. It has worked out ok. We only have about 1-2/3 acres, most of it is wooded. There’s a small creek about 50 yards from the end of the lawn, but we can’t see it from the house once the trees leaf out.
Here’s another view of our property, looking back up to the house from the same point I took the other photo. Friends who visit say it feels like we’re in a tree house because we are so high up. The tallest trees are higher than our upstairs, but we are near the middle of the height of the trees for most of them. These are the steps that lead to the backyard and the woods. Sorry, I do not know how to adjust the size of the photos.
That looks like part of the circle in our house yard that I mow. I would do the flatter part back and forth across, then the slope up and down. It was nerve-wracking for me first few times I did it, but now I can handle it with ease - on a Zero-Turn with NO roll bar. ;)
Beau filled up the tank for me, and today looks like the only dry day this week, so I’ll be mowing my ‘hay field’ again, today. He’s off to the cabin hauling bear bait for the upcoming season, so something will go wrong with the mower; you can bet on it! :)